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The Netflix app on my phone is working fine but that's fuck-all use because my phone is fucked and won't charge properly. I was planning on making the most of being indoors with electricity and internet for once and watching all of Luke Cage before I'm back outside tomorrow. :mad:
 
iona said:
The Netflix app on my phone is working fine but that's fuck-all use because my phone is fucked and won't charge properly. I was planning on making the most of being indoors with electricity and internet for once and watching all of Luke Cage before I'm back outside tomorrow. :mad:
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Luke Cage sems to be ok to ms, from.a quick test play of about a minute. Will wait till the reviews are in. Never got into daredevil, and whilst Jessica Jones was good enough to watch all the way through, I wasn't overly inspired. I'm bored of most of the marvel films, even the action just barely holds my attention. 10 hour seasons with loads of slow plotting, mediocre chi and the occasional fight scene (where the choreography is very hit and miss - I mean it's much better than, say, buffy, but buffy was about the witty dialogue and hugely imaginative story telling, you could let your imagination fill ok the blanks when her on screen fights did not give the impression of supernaturally gifted martial artist, or whatever she was supposed to be, cos everything else was first rate; writing, acting, some or the better monsters).

Marvel shpows might improve a fair bit on action, but there's no where near enough of it to compensate for the slow pacd, frequent humourless and 2d characters.

I'll get round go Luke.Cage soon enough, and I hope my predictions are massively wrong, but I'm in no rush to find out.

BTW, If anyone missed it at cinema.or DVD, the movie The Big Short is a recent addition to UK Netflix. Starts out like some kind of wolf of wall Street clone, but moves away from that to comment on the greed, corruption and the real human impact the subprime mortgage bubble caused. Told from the PoV of some of the stock brokers who shorted the hoUsing market in America, 2 years before the problem became widely known. A very human telling of the story, with Bale giving the standout performanc, imo.
 
Netflix have added the 1974 Saul Bass directed Phase IV. I love this film and really recommend it.

It'd an eco-horror sci-fi about a colony of hyper intelligent super ants intent on taking over the earth and dominating mankind. It's mostly set in the desert with the Ants attacking a scientific research facility and the people within.

It's a trippy, post 60s, nature vs man drama that is tense and exciting, even when the action is focussed on things like an ant decommissioning an air con system.

...and not a cgi ant in sight!!!
 
It was Saul's only full length directors gig as well. Like Laughton, with Night of the Hunter, he felt the sting of the critics and never directed again.
 
Nanker Phelge said:
Netflix have added the 1974 Saul Bass directed Phase IV. I love this film and really recommend it.

It'd an eco-horror sci-fi about a colony of hyper intelligent super ants intent on taking over the earth and dominating mankind. It's mostly set in the desert with the Ants attacking a scientific research facility and the people within.

It's a trippy, post 60s, nature vs man drama that is tense and exciting, even when the action is focussed on things like an ant decommissioning an air con system.

...and not a cgi ant in sight!!!
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Oh I saw that years ago...it's ace! :)
 
Right here I am. 21st century at last. Tell me what I've been missing.

I had to choose 3 shows so they could recommend me stuff. Of the ones that were there I'd only seen one (that I'd want to have recommendations based on). Most of the contemporary shows I hadn't yet seen. So the teen just chose stuff. Is that important? (This has been silly question number one).
 
danny la rouge said:
Right here I am. 21st century at last. Tell me what I've been missing.

I had to choose 3 shows so they could recommend me stuff. Of the ones that were there I'd only seen one (that I'd want to have recommendations based on). Most of the contemporary shows I hadn't yet seen. So the teen just chose stuff. Is that important? (This has been silly question number one).
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They will recommend you stuff based on those choices and what you subsequently watch/rate. It doesn't really matter.

What kind of things do you like? The stuff netflix themselves make is generally excellent - Stranger Things, The Get Down and Master of None spring to mind, there's also a documentary series about food/cooking/fermentation whose name I forget which is good. There's loads of old BBC stuff on there.
 
danny la rouge said:
Right here I am. 21st century at last. Tell me what I've been missing.

I had to choose 3 shows so they could recommend me stuff. Of the ones that were there I'd only seen one (that I'd want to have recommendations based on). Most of the contemporary shows I hadn't yet seen. So the teen just chose stuff. Is that important? (This has been silly question number one).
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Best to set up separate profiles for you and the teen if you want it to recommend you stuff you'd actually like.

Anything you find that you've seen, rate it. And obviously rate everything you've watched. If you don't care about seeing something, rate it a one star and it should stop appearing in your results.

Once you've rated enough stuff, it gets pretty good with the recommendations. But it's a bit weird how it works. It'll recommend you stuff and when you hover over it, it'll show 1 or 2 red stars. That means it thinks you would give it 1 or 2 stars had you rated it, so not sure why they appear in your top picks etc. But, the red stars are the accurate bit. If it's got 4/5 red stars, there's a good chance you'll like it. Again, this all assumes you've trained it to your tastes.

As your tastes will be different to the teen, you will get pointless results if you're both rating on the same profile.
 
In the past couple of weeks I've finished off Orphan Black, Stranger Things, Brooklyn 99, and have just started watching Luther (which I'm not sure whether I like -- it seems to be based on cartoonish caricatures).

I don't watch many films, so I'm really only in it for the TV programmes, and by god UK Netflix is fucking dire in that regard.
 
Fez909 said:
But it's a bit weird how it works. It'll recommend you stuff and when you hover over it, it'll show 1 or 2 red stars. That means it thinks you would give it 1 or 2 stars had you rated it
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I don't think that's how it works - the red stars are the ratings it's had from all Netflix viewers I thought?
 
hegley said:
I don't think that's how it works - the red stars are the ratings it's had from all Netflix viewers I thought?
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Ah, I just assumed!

Seems we're both right tho:
We use a recommendation algorithm that takes certain factors into consideration, such as: The genres of movies and TV shows available. Your streaming history, and previous ratings you've made. The combined ratings of all Netflix members who have similar tastes in titles to you.
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i don't find other people's ratings helpful at all. Look at IMDb's ratings. Word of mouth is the best for recommendations, or threads like this.
 
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